Chapter 3399: Anti-Self-Learning, Great Achievement Seems Deficient

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While waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Xia Duo was not idle; on one hand, he continued to support the Alliance Mages dealing with the Time Signal Source at the front lines via the Command Network, and on the other, he analyzed the information previously obtained from various local battlefields.

Especially regarding the latter, Xia Duo invested more energy, because the Illuminati had already begun their decisive battle on the Time Line, and even under his command, the various local battlefields were struggling to gain the upper hand, let alone achieve victory.

This further highlighted the preciousness of the information already obtained from the various local battlefields before noon today.

That information contained not only details of the Time-Involving Rituals on the corresponding battlefields but also various potential information exposed by the behavior of the Illuminati Mages themselves.

Regarding the part about the Time-Involving Rituals, because Xia Duo had already parsed the Tear Drop Lake ritual during the Tanzan Peak action Time Loop, this could likewise be used to assist in parsing the ritual details of other battlefields.

On the local battlefields, the words and actions of the Illuminati Mages were also important, and even the details of the battlefields themselves were worth analyzing; it was just a pity that the Time Loops he had previously experienced added up to only a little over two years, which was insufficient to support Xia Duo in conducting a comprehensive intelligence analysis.

Parsing the Time-Involving Ritual at Tear Drop Lake alone could already be considered lucky, and now, Xia Duo was prepared to complete the remaining analysis work.

Compared to the solo research in the Time Loop, he could now utilize the Computing Power Pool and the various domain experts in the Command Network; if it were purely researching Time-Involving Rituals, it might not necessarily be more efficient than in the Time Loop.

But when it came to intelligence analysis, it would only be more efficient than him thinking dryly without any assistance; in fact, this was the fundamental reason why he only parsed Time-Involving Rituals in the Time Loop.

Parsing Time-Involving Rituals involved the application of Magic knowledge, and the assistance of others was mostly reflected in computing power, with the effect on inspiration not being obvious.

But for intelligence analysis, almost every individual was involved, not to mention those intelligence experts who were even more skilled than Xia Duo.

In terms of intelligence analysis, integrating the Wisdom of the masses was the most efficient, which is the so-called "one man's plan is short, two men's plan is long."

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Xia Duo synchronized all the analysis progress in the Command Network at the first opportunity, then joined in himself, and soon, he discovered a key clue!

To ensure the smooth progress of the Time-Involving Rituals on the local battlefields, the Illuminati almost all chose places rarely visited by humans, so as to avoid the anchoring of the past by historical inertia as much as possible.

But after all, there were not many truly wild places in the Northland; so-called ownerless lands were mostly places that could not be developed at the moment, or lacked a legal basis, while in the past, those ownerless lands basically all had owners.

This also meant that it was difficult for many truly rarely visited places to exist.

Therefore, in the specific selection of ritual locations, the Illuminati chose more underwater and inside mountains, just like Tear Drop Lake and the Moonshadow Family's stronghold inside Tanzan Peak.

Of course, this alone was not enough to be identified by Xia Duo as a key clue; after all, anyone who took a glance at the locations of the various local battlefields could reach such a conclusion.

The key lay in the fact that these two special types of ritual locations—underwater and inside mountains—could not be accessed by conventional means; for example, to go underwater, one would at least need a Spell capable of going underwater, right? One couldn't just swim down directly, could one?

Even if they really swam down directly, those Illuminati Mages couldn't just hold their breath while casting Spells, could they?

Moreover, some underwater ritual locations were not shallow, and even for Elves who were extremely skilled at diving, it was difficult to maintain a normal state of activity there, at least not enough to support them until the end of the ritual.

In this situation, it would be necessary to use Magic to change the environment or to adapt oneself to the environment.

The clue Xia Duo discovered lay right here; he found that almost every underwater ritual location featured a 【Water Elemental Domain Barrier】. If it were just this, there would be no need to pay too much attention, but it just so happened that they were all barriers in the style of Sea Elves.

The Magic of the Surface Elves on the Main Plane had long since formed a clear distinction from other branching Elves.

For example, the Drow; first of all, the Magic Net environment of the Underdark was different from the surface, and coupled with the harsh living environment, not only were the survival resources of the environment itself scarce, but there was also more cruel competition brought about by this scarcity.

Therefore, developing to this day, the Magic of the Drow had long since evolved into a completely different system compared to their surface kin from nearly ten thousand years ago.

The same was true for Sea Elves; perhaps the Magic system had not undergone any essential changes, but the Spellcasting style and Spell forms were all closely related to the environment in which they lived.

Without frequent communication with the continental Elves, it was also very easy to develop a unique style.

Of course, these were just reasons Xia Duo found after concluding that Sea Elf Magic had appeared on the local battlefields, and the reason he was able to reach the conclusion in advance was naturally because he had seen Sea Elf Magic of a similar style in the Projection Plane.

If it were said that the same Sea Elf Magic existed at Tear Drop Lake and even multiple other underwater ritual locations, it might be considered a coincidence, but different variations of the same Magic appeared, and they were still in the Sea Elf style.

Then that obviously could not be explained by coincidence.

It was more likely that the Illuminati had come into contact with Sea Elf Mages and learned water-related Spells from them, or simply that Sea Elf Mages had joined the Illuminati.

Although the possibility that an Illuminati Mage had taught themselves Sea Elf Magic from scattered records on land could not be ruled out, it was still difficult to explain the distinct Sea Elf style within it.

The key was that since a more likely explanation already existed, Xia Duo could not ignore it.

No matter what, he had to grasp this clue; perhaps this was the key to finding the location of the Illuminati's core ritual.

Moreover, this clue already involved forces outside the Northland; if it were not investigated clearly, even if there was no impact now, it would be highly likely to produce a backlash in the future.

Therefore, even if the situation was extremely urgent now, and it was even possible that the Illuminati would succeed in subverting the Time Line in the next moment, Xia Duo would still not let go of this clue.

After all, apart from this only clue, there was really no other way to effectively counter the Illuminati.

Even if various countries opened up Permission Levels for War Spells and provided strong support, at most it would only stalemate the scattered Time Line battlefields, and it might not necessarily affect the Illuminati's core ritual; the Alliance remained in a passive position.

Xia Duo still understood the principle that one will eventually lose if one only defends; to gain the initiative, one still needed to strike at the Illuminati's vital point.

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After discovering the Sea Elf clue, Xia Duo immediately synchronized it to the representatives of various countries, and then the representatives of various countries synchronized it to their respective countries, but the various countries had different opinions on this clue discovered by Xia Duo.

Most countries did not think that at the most urgent moment, they needed to divert energy to investigate some Sea Elves; based on their understanding of Time-Involving Magic, they believed that as long as they defeated the Illuminati on the local battlefields, they could dismantle the opponent's conspiracy.

This point itself was not a problem, but the problem was whether it could be done; in reality, it was already impossible to do so, because from noon until now, the Illuminati had already won quite a few victories.